Contains manuscript drafts of Quinns published works titled Audiences and Intentions, Before Abraham Was, Book of Essays I,
Book of Essays II, Broken Shore,Confidence of British Philosophers, Figures of Speech, Hell With the Fire Out, New World,
A Poet's Work, The Rivals. Correspondence with related to each manuscript draft is included. Prospectuses for British Historians,
An Enterprise of Hope and A New Nation and two unpublished papers on philosopher Francis Bacon and historian Francis Parkman.